Restless History: Political Imaginaries and Their Discontents in Post-Stalinist Bulgaria. By Zhivka Valiavicharska. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. xvi, 275pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. $39.95, paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2023.32
Abstract: totalitarianisms, she observes (133), is used to exculpate the proto-fascist (yet, arguably, non-totalitarian) regime of Miklós Horthy. Réka Szentiványi’s chapter discusses Budapest’s House of Terror, a museum that, although ostensibly dedicated to the examination of… read more here.
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Georg Lukács and Revolutionary Realpolitik, 1918–19: An Essay on Ethical Action, Historical Judgment, and the History of Political Thought
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DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2022.0003
Abstract: Abstract:“Bolshevism as a Moral Problem” and “Tactics and Ethics” were discussions of political ethics closely related to Max Weber’s contemporaneous “Politics as a Vocation.” They diverged from one another in their historical assessments of possibilities… read more here.
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